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Oregon lawmakers consider tightening hospice oversight over fraud, abuse concerns

Senate Bill 1575 aims to protect people at the end of their lives from fraudulent companies that have stolen identities and provided few services in other states

Feb 10
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Bill to curb immigration enforcement at hospitals sparks mixed response

With hospitals and safety net clinics opposing the legislation, Sen. WInsvey Campos said she is trying to find a compromise as providers say patients are losing access to needed care. Hospitals had been off-limits to ICE activity until the Trump administration killed that policy last year.

Feb 5
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Planned Parenthood clinic in Portland, Ore. | COURTESY PLANNED PARENTHOOD

Bill to fund Planned Parenthood in Oregon draws passionate opinions in hearing

House Bill 4127, proposed by the House majority leader, would backfill funds lost due to a federal funding ban. But at a time of state budget cuts, its cost could be a hurdle.

Feb 4
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OHSU study finds Medicaid networks rife with ‘ghost’ providers

Many providers listed as part of the provider networks serving lower-income people in the federal program don't actually serve those people, contributing to care shortages and delays

Feb 2
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Oregon hospitals fail in 2024 to meet national standards on several preventable infections

State and federal authorities track hospital-acquired infections, which are a leading cause of death

Jan 27
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Tony Neves, an urgent care technician, wheels Julianne Upton out of the Valley Immediate Care clinic in Central Point outside Medford after treatment for a knee injury on Oct. 23, 2025. Another staff member, technician Savannah Hixs, holds the door. The company operates six urgent care clinics in southern Oregon. | COURTESY OF VALLEY IMMEDIATE CARE

Oregon patients turn to urgent care as primary care suffers

The doubling of urgent care clinics in the past 10 years worries some health experts, who say the trend masks the state’s lack of support for family medicine docs and general practitioners

Jan 15
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Oregon Medicaid insurer’s data breach could lead to insurance fraud

CareOregon, which serves about 500,000 low-income residents on the Oregon Health Plan, notified more than 5,000 people in December that their information had been ‘viewed’ and could be used to file fake claims

Jan 13
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Oregon lawmaker pushes for urgent care standards

Rep. Nancy Nathanson of Eugene plans to try again this year to map out the burgeoning, unregulated field of urgent care medicine.

Jan 8
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Oregon, other states reject Trump administration’s latest vaccine recommendations for kids

The 3-month-old West Coast Health Alliance is sticking to longstanding recommendations for children, marking its third rejection of vaccine recommendations from vaccine skeptics in the Trump administration

Jan 6

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As new ‘superflu’ hits other states hard, Oregon is doing relatively well

Despite a new flu variant boosting national numbers, things in Oregon are better than last year. Officials say they can’t predict whether that will continue, and hospitalizations have climbed.

Jan 6
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